Editing 1572

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[[File:La masacre de San Bartolomé, por François Dubois.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[August 24]]: [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]]]][[File:Het_beleg_van_Haarlem_in_1572_(Pieter_Jansz._Saenredam,_1628).jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[December 11]]: start of the [[Siege of Haarlem]]]]
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Year '''1572''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDLXXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

==Events==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]], is tried for treason, for his part in the [[Ridolfi plot]] to restore [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]] in England. He is executed on [[June 2]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/226|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/226 226–229]}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth I of England]] issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions, on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Harrow School]] is founded, with a royal charter from Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Harrow School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jwa8ILtT3X8C&dq=Harrow+%22February+1572%22&pg=RA1-PA7 |last=Tyerman|first=Christopher|author-link = Christopher Tyerman|page=7|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-822796-5}} ("By his own admission, John Lyon did not found Harrow School. The Charter he received from Elizabeth I dated '''19 February 1572''' explicitly stated...")</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; In what is now the [[Rajasthan]] state in [[India]], [[Maharana Pratap]] is crowned as the new [[List of Ranas of Mewar|Rana of Mewar]] at the Kingdom's capital at [[Udaipur]] after the death of his father, [[Udai Singh II]].
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Mem de Sá]], the [[Governorate General of Brazil|Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil]], dies after 14 years in office. He is succeeded by Lourenço da Veiga. 
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius V]] issues the papal bull ''Supremi omnipotentis Dei'', granting an [[indulgence]] reducing 50 days of punishment in the afterlife for Roman Catholics who recited the [[penitential psalm]]s.
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Queen Elizabeth I]] of England summons [[4th Parliament of Elizabeth I|a new Parliament]], which assembles on May 4.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Capture of Brielle]]: The [[Geuzen|Sea Beggars]], Netherlandish [[Calvinist]] rebels, capture the port city of [[Brielle]]. This leads to a wave of uprisings in [[Holland]] and [[Zeeland]] against Spanish [[Habsburg]] rule, leaving most of those provinces (with the exception of [[Amsterdam]]) under rebel control.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory XIII]] succeeds [[Pope Pius V]], as the 226th [[pope]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mircea Eliade|title=The Encyclopedia of Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuMkAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-02-909820-2|page=175|language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] (4th day of 5th month, [[Genki (era)|Genki 3]]) &ndash; At the [[Battle of Kizaki]], Shimazu Yoshihiro leads an army of just 300 men to defeat the 3,000 strong Ito clan of [[Itō Yoshisuke]].<ref name="Cassell">{{cite book|last1=Turnbull|first1=Stephen|title=The Samurai Sourcebook|date=2000|publisher=Cassell & C0|location=London|isbn=1854095234|page=221}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The [[Geuzen|Sea Beggars]] capture the city of [[Gorinchem|Gorkum]]; several Roman Catholic priests are imprisoned.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; The city council of [[Haarlem]], one of the largest cities of the Netherlands, votes to join the Dutch Revolt against King Philip II of Spain. King Philip orders  sent an army north under command of [[Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva|Don Fadrique]], son of the Duke of Alva, to lead an army to conquer the rebelling cities.<ref name=Tracy>J.D. Tracy, ''The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance, and Politics in Holland 1572–1588'' (Oxford University Press, 2008) pp.78-79</ref>
* [[July 9]] &ndash; The [[Geuzen|Sea Beggars]] hang 19 previously imprisoned Roman Catholic priests (the ''[[Martyrs of Gorkum]]'') at [[Brielle]].
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Humphrey Gilbert]] leads 1,500 volunteers from England, on an expedition to assist the Sea Beggars.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Wanli Emperor]] of China ascends the throne at the age of nine; he will rule for 48 years.
* [[July 29]]&ndash;[[August 2]] &ndash; [[Battle of Molodi]]: A large [[Crimean Tatars|Crimean Tatar]]–[[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army which invaded Russia is routed.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; Huguenot King [[Henry IV of France|Henry III of Navarre]] marries [[Margaret of Valois]], sister of King Charles and daughter of [[Catherine de' Medici]], in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.<ref>{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|author3=Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-159-6|page=1012|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]]: Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including [[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]] and [[Petrus Ramus]], at the order of King [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]], with Catherine de Medici's connivance. Henry of Navarre and the [[Princes of Condé|Prince of Condé]] barely escape the same fate. This brings about the [[Fourth War of Religion]] in France.<ref>{{cite book|author=St. John's University (New York, N.Y.)|title=Saint Vincent de Paul: A Tercentenary Commemoration of His Death, 1660-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ikc0omgpSCcC|year=1960|publisher=St. John's University Press|page=78|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Mons (1572)|Siege of Mons]], which started on June 23, ends with the recapture of [[Valenciennes]] by the Spanish Army from the Dutch [[Huguenots]] in what is now Belgium. [[Louis of Nassau]], the Dutch rebel commander, surrenders to the [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba|Duke of Alba]].<ref name=Tracy/>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; 
**[[Tupac Amaru]] and other Inca Empire nobles are executed in Peru at [[Cuzco]] on orders of the Spanish [[List of Viceroys of Peru|colonial Viceroy]],  [[Francisco de Toledo]], who then carries out the destruction of the relics of the Incan civilization.<ref name="MacQuarrie">{{cite book |last1=MacQuarrie |first1=Kim |title=The Last Days of the Incas |date=2007 |publisher=Simon and Schuster Paperbacks |location=New York |isbn=9780743260497 |pages=363–378}}</ref>
**The Ottoman Empire begins the deportation of 10 percent of families of the provinces of Anatolia, Rum (Sivas), Karaman and Zülkadriye, mostly craftsmen or peasants, to the newly-conquered island of Cyprus. In exchange for relocating, the transferees are made exempt from taxes for two years.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Şeker |first=Nesim |title=Forced Population Movements in the Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic: An Attempt at Reassessment through Demographic Engineering |journal=European Journal of Turkish Studies |year=2013 |issue=16 |doi=10.4000/ejts.4396|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf]] as King of Hungary takes place at St. Martin's Cathedral in [[Bratislava|Pozsony]] (now Bratislava, Slovakia).

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Spanish Fury at Mechelen]]: The mostly Catholic population of the Netherlands city of [[Mechelen]] (now in Belgium) surrenders to the Spanish Army and signifies its intention to offer no resistance, singing Catholic psalms of penitence to welcome the Catholic Spaniards. Nevertheless, the Duke of Alba authorizes his troops to conduct three days of slaughter, rape and pillaging.<ref name=Arnade>Peter Arnade, ''Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt'' (Cornell University Press, 2008) pp.226-229</ref>
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]] &ndash; [[Relief of Goes]]: Soldiers of the Spanish [[Tercio]]s wade across the estuary of the [[Scheldt]], to relieve the siege of [[Goes]] in the [[Spanish Netherlands]].
* [[November 9]] 
**[[Siege of Sancerre]]: Catholic forces of the king lay siege to [[Sancerre]], a [[Huguenot]] stronghold in central France. The fortified city holds out for nearly eight months, without bombard artillery. This is one of the last times that slings are used in European warfare.
**[[SN 1572|Supernova SN 1572]] is first observed in the [[constellation]] [[Cassiopeia (constellation)|Cassiopeia]], by [[Cornelius Gemma]]. [[Tycho Brahe]], who notes it two days later, will use it to challenge the prevailing view that [[star]]s do not change.<ref>[[University of Otago]] Library exhibition note for [http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/delights/case_eight.html ''The Earth & Beyond''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212211818/http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/delights/case_eight.html |date=February 12, 2012 }}; Allen, R. H. ''Star Names: their Lore and Meaning'', Bill Thayer's edition at [[LacusCurtius]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Cassiopeia*.html "Cassiopeia."]</ref>  The supernova remnant remains visible through 1574.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; Residents of the Belgian city of [[Zutphen]] are massacred by the Spanish Army.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTNfFrXJkgsC&q=Massacre+of+Naarden&pg=PA502|title=The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History|last=Motley|first=John Lothrop|date=1871|publisher=George Routledge and Sons|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Massacre of Naarden|All but 60 of the 3,000 residents are massacred]] by the Spanish Army in the Belgian city of [[Naarden]].<ref name=Arnade/>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; For administrative purposes, the Kingdom of Portugal divides its colony in [[Brazil]] into two colonies, with one Governor-General at Rio de Janeiro and another at Bahia. The two colonies will be reunified on April 12, 1578.<ref>"Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira" de 1936, citado na página 60.</ref>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Haarlem (1572–73)|Siege of Haarlem]] is begun by the [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba|Duke of Alva]], Spanish Army commander in the Netherlands, and lasts until July 13, 1573.<ref name=Fergus>{{Cite web|last=O’Sullivan|first=Fergus|date=14 June 2021|title=The Siege of Haarlem, Kenau, and Creating a Heroine|url=https://historyguild.org/the-siege-of-haarlem-kenau-and-creating-a-heroine/|website=History Guild}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Neo-Inca State]] in [[Vilcabamba, Peru]], the last independent remnant of the [[Inca Empire]], is conquered by Spain.
* [[Girolamo Mercuriale]] from [[Forlì]] (Italy) writes the work {{Lang|la|De morbis cutaneis}} ("On the diseases of the skin"), the first scientific tract on [[dermatology]].
* [[Imaginary number]]s are defined by [[Rafael Bombelli]].
* Portugal's [[national epic]] ''[[Os Lusíadas]]'' by [[Luís de Camões]] is first published.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11198/ |title = The Lusiads |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1800–1882 |access-date = 2013-08-31 }}</ref>
* [[Georg Braun]] begins publication of his urban [[atlas]], ''Civitates orbis terrarum'', in [[Cologne]].
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== Births ==
[[File:Elizabeth_Vernon,_Countess_of_Southampton_attributed_to_Marcus_Gheeraerts_the_Younger.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton]]]]
[[File:Marie Elisabeth de Valois Clouet.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Marie Elisabeth of France]]]]
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Antoine de Gaudier]], French Jesuit writer (d. [[1622]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton]], English countess (d. [[1655]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[John Donne]],  English poet and soldier (d. [[1631]]), 
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Ellen Marsvin]], Danish noble, landowner and county administrator (d. [[1649]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[William Cooke (of Highnam)|William Cooke]], English politician (d. [[1619]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Francis II, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. [[1632]])
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon]], English viscount (d. [[1638]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[István Esterházy (1572–1596)|István Esterházy]], Hungarian noble (d. [[1596]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Caracciolo]], Field Marshal of Spanish forces in the [[Thirty Years' War]] (d. [[1631]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg]] (d. [[1641]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[William Strachey]], English writer (d. [[1621]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Adam Tanner (mathematician)|Adam Tanner]], Austrian Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy (d. [[1632]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[John Davenant]], English Anglican bishop (d. [[1641]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel]], German musician (d. [[1632]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Honorat de Porchères Laugier]], French writer (d. [[1653]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera]], Lord of Gera, Lobenstein and Oberkranichfeld (1572–1635) (d. [[1635]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Ben Jonson]], English dramatist (d. [[1637]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani]], Georgian prince (d. [[1625]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Theodorus Schrevelius]], Dutch Golden Age writer and poet (d. [[1649]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Fakhr-al-Din II]], Ottoman Emir of [[Chouf]] (d. [[1635]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Daniyal (Mughal prince)|Daniyal]], Imperial Prince of the Royal House of Timur, Viceroy of Deccan (d. [[1604]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Francis van Aarssens]], Dutch diplomat (d. [[1641]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Denis-Simon de Marquemont]], French cardinal and archbishop (d. [[1626]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Marie Elisabeth of France]], French princess (d. [[1578]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[William Whitmore (died 1648)|William Whitmore]], English politician (d. [[1648]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Johannes Saeckma]], Dutch Golden Age magistrate and judge of Leeuwarden (d. [[1636]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg]] (d. [[1619]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Albret Skeel]], State Admiral of Denmark (d. [[1639]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Daniel Sennert]], German physician, chemist (d. [[1637]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Vilem Slavata of Chlum]], Czech nobleman (d. [[1652]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford]], son of Sir Francis Russell (d. [[1627]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Juan López de Agurto de la Mata]], Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Coro (later Bishop of Caracas) (1634–1637) and Bishop of Puerto Rico (1630–1634) (d. [[1637]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Johannes Vodnianus Campanus]], Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet and dramatist (d. [[1622]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Johann Bayer]], German astronomer (d. [[1625]])
** [[Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar]], Spanish diplomat (d. [[1655]])
** [[Arend Dickmann]], Dutch admiral in the Polish Navy (d. [[1627]])
** [[John Floyd (Jesuit)|John Floyd]], English Jesuit (d. [[1649]])
** [[Regina Basilier]], German-Swedish merchant banker (d. [[1631]])
** [[Bartholomew Gosnold]], English lawyer and explorer (d. [[1607]])
** [[Cyril Lucaris]], Greek prelate and theologian (d. [[1637]])
** [[James Mabbe]], English scholar and poet (d. [[1642]])
** [[Thomas Tomkins]], Welsh composer (d. [[1656]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini]] or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (d. c.[[1645]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:El Greco 050.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Pius V]]]]
[[File:明穆宗画像.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Longqing Emperor]] of China]]
[[File:Cranach the Younger Sigismund II Augustus.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Sigismund II Augustus]] of Poland]]
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[[File:Miguel López de Legazpi, en La Hormiga de Oro.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Miguel Lopez de Legazpi]]]]
[[File:Gaspard de Coligny 1517 1572.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]]]]
[[File:San Francisco de Borja.jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía|Francis Borgia]]]]
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen]] (b. [[1536]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Monte]], French 50th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1499]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Cho Shik]], Korean Confucian scholar and politician (b. [[1501]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Pierre Certon]], French composer (b. c. [[1510]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Pedro Agustín]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (b. [[1512]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Aegidius Tschudi]], Swiss historian (b. [[1505]])
** [[Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (b. [[1533]])
** [[Udai Singh II]], King of Mewar (b. [[1522]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Mem de Sá]], Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil (b. c. [[1500]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester]] (b. c. [[1483]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Maggi]], Italian [[Polymath|Renaissance man]] (b. c. [[1523]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders]] (1518–1538) (b. [[1494]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius V]] (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Pius V {{!}} pope {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Pius-V |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=23 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Moses Isserles]], Polish Jewish rabbi and Talmudist (b. [[1530]])
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk]] (executed) (b. [[1536]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Jeanne d'Albret]], Queen of Navarre (b. [[1528]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Johannes Goropius Becanus]], Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist (b. [[1519]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Longqing Emperor]] of China (b. [[1537]])
* [[July 7]] &ndash; King [[Sigismund II Augustus]] of Poland (b. [[1520]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[John of Cologne]], Dutch [[Franciscan]] friar, martyr and saint (b. [[1510]])
** [[Martyrs of Gorkum]] (b. Dutch nationality)
** [[Nicholas Pieck]], Dutch Franciscan friar, martyr and saint (b. [[1534]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Isaac Luria]], Palestinian-born Jewish Kabbalist (b. [[1534]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Miguel López de Legazpi]], Spanish conquistador (b. [[1502]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Gaspard II de Coligny|Gaspard de Coligny]], French [[Protestant]] leader (b. [[1519]])
** [[Charles de Téligny]], French soldier and diplomat (b. [[1535]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Petrus Ramus|Pierre de la Ramée]], French humanist scholar (b. [[1515]])
* August &ndash; [[Claude Goudimel]], French composer (b. [[1510]])
* September &ndash; [[Denis Lambin]], French classical scholar (b. [[1520]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Barbara of Austria]] (b. [[1539]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Túpac Amaru]], last of the Incas
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía|Francis Borgia]], Italian [[Jesuit]] priest and saint (b. [[1510]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby]], English politician (b. [[1508]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Cosimo Bartoli]], Italian diplomat and writer (b. [[1503]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[John Erskine, Earl of Mar (d. 1572)|John Erskine, Earl of Mar]], regent of Scotland
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Al-Mutahhar]], Imam of the Zaidi state of Yemen (b. [[1503]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Henry of Stolberg]], German nobleman (b. [[1509]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Bronzino|Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino)]], Italian artist and poet (b. [[1503]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[John Knox]], Scottish religious reformer (b. [[1513]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jasper Godwin Ridley|title=John Knox|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoMcAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-821373-4|page=517}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Ippolito II d'Este]], Italian cardinal and statesman (b. [[1509]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Loredana Marcello]], Venetian dogaressa and botanist 
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[François Clouet]], French miniaturist (b. c. [[1510]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Johann Sylvan]], Reformed German theologian (executed; date of birth unknown)<ref>{{BBKL|s/s4/sylvan_j}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski]], Polish scholar (b. [[1503]])
** [[Francisco de Moraes]], Portuguese author and writer (b. [[1500]])
** [[Yasumi Naomasa]], Japanese military commander
** [[Stanisław Zamoyski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1519]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Christopher Tye]], English composer and organist (b. [[1505]])

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